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Summer Rains Can Be
Serious Soil Robbers
88 Per Cent of Loss
Occurs During Season
Summer rains can be “soil rob
bers’’ that cause serious erosion
losses unless farm land is protect
ed by good conservation safe
guards, Ohio State University soils
research men point out.
A 10-year study of erosion dam
age at the Zanesville, Ohio experi
ment station, showed that more
than 88 per cent of the soil loss
due to rainfall occurred in the six
summer months. Farm soil is
most vulnerable in summer be-
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cause clean-cultivated row crops
during those months provide only
a small amount of protection.
High intensity summer rains
cause soil losses in two ways, the
Ohio research men say. Large
sized drops strike the earth with
such force they break the surface
soil into small particles that quick
ly fill all surface pores. This seals
the soil surface into a hard crust
that water cannot penetrate. Ex
cessive runoff and erosion losses
are the result. Also, high intensity
rain beats down so fast that even
unsealed earth cannot take it as
rapidly as it comes.
Thick stands of deep-rooted le
gumes and grasses will provide a
soil-protecting cover that will en
able the land to take high intensity
rains in stride. To produce dense,
leafy stands, the legumes must be
well fed. That means liming,
where needed.
Five-Point Program
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A five-point program to “balance
the soil’s needs’’ and obtain maxi
mum crop yields per acre at lowest
tyoduction costs, was outlined by
O. T. Coleman, Missouri university
extension soils specialist.
Here are the steps Coleman sug
gests:
I—Provide plenty of plant food in
available form for growing crops.
2—Have soil tests made to find
out whether the plant food supply,
is in balance. Growing crops need a
balanced ration the same as do
humans and livestock. A soil test
will be a guide in adding the kind
and amount of plant nutrients the
soil needs.
3—Get the soil in condition so
crops can use the plant foods. This
means building up the organic mat
ter supply. Organic matter can be
added and soil tilth improved by
growing well-fed deep-rooted le
gumes such as alfalfa or sweet
clover in the rotation. When the soil
is well stocked with plant nutrients
and organic matter, minerals are
released so that plant roots can
more efficiently use them.
4—Keep water, plant nutrients and
soil at home by conservation meth
ods. Where needed, these may in
clude terracing and contouring to
reduce runoff and erosion losses on
upland soils.
s— Follow a well-balanced crop
ping system. Rotate pasture and
green manure crops regularly with
grains. Livestock is a “must” to
properly make use of pasture and
roughage crops. Tests have shown
that where a crop is pastured off,
about 75 per cent of the organic mat
ter is returned to the soil through
manure.
Remodeled Fann Kitchen
Saves 45 Miles Yearly
Mri. Georage C. Wheatcroft of
Warren county, Kentucky, recently
■nil a farm kitchen remodeled Into
a u-ahape, saving an estimated 45
miles of walking a year.
She says: *7 can now prepare
three meals and take only 250 to
300 steps where it did take 300 to
MM. and that means a saving of 45
mil»r a year. Besides saving miles
it eaves time and is much more at
tractive.
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